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A collaboration between the School of Earth and Environment and Leeds College of Art has won an Outstanding Digital Innovation award at the Times Higher Education Awards. The Virtual Worlds Project was created by Dr Jacqui Houghton, Dr Dan Morgan, Dr Geoff Lloyd and Clare Gordon with colleagues from Leeds College of Art as a...
A Times Higher Education news story has shown Leeds is the top UK university for the environmental impact of its research and eighth in the world between 2011-2015, based on field weighted citation impact (from Elsevier's Scopus database). Utrecht University in The Netherlands came top, followed by Stanford, Stockholm and Harvard. The University of Oxford came ninth....
Mary Shelley's creature in her famous novel Frankenstein was better adapted to Artic environments than human beings because the author believed the Earth would turn colder and eventually freeze. Dr David Higgins, Associate Professor in English Literature, spoke about the influence of Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and their contemporary, Lord Byron, on Radio 4's...
Professor Liane Benning and Dr Jim McQuaid from the School of Earth and Environment told BBC weather presenter Keeley Donovan about their experiences researching ice melt in Greenland on The Weather Show on BBC Radio Leeds (13 August). The researchers, who were taking part in the Black and Bloom project on the Greenland ice sheet, which...
June 2016 was the hottest June worldwide in history, prompting the BBC to report on the impact of dangerous climate change. Records are being smashed month on month, with June the latest in a 14-month run of consecutive record-breaking global temperatures. Priestley Centre director Piers Forster, who is Professor of Physical Climate Change at the University of Leeds, tells the Yorkshire...